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<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who draws pleadings or other writings.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>One who drinks drams; a tippler.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Tatler.</i>

<h1>Draughtsmanship</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draughts"man*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.</def>

<h1>Draughty</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draught"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; <as>as, a <ex>draughtly</ex>, comfortless room</as>.</def>

<h1>Drave</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Drave</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>, old <i>imp</i>. of <er>Drive</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Dravida</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Dra"vi*da</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[Skr. <ets>Dr\'bevi<?/a</ets>, prob. meaning, Tamil.]</ety> <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> <def>A race Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.</def>

<h1>Dravidian</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Dra*vid"i*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From Skr. <ets>Dr\'bevi<?/a</ets>, the name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India.]</ety> <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the Dravida.</def>

<cs><col>Dravidian languages</col>, <cd>a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.</cd></cs>

<h1>Draw</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draw</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Drew</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Drawn</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Drawing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>dra<?/en</ets>, <ets>drahen</ets>, <ets>draien</ets>, <ets>drawen</ets>, AS. <ets>dragan</ets>; akin to Icel. & Sw. <ets>draga</ets>, Dan. <ets>drage</ets> to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. <ets>dragan</ets> to bear, carry, D. <ets>dragen</ets>, G. <ets>tragen</ets>, Goth. <ets>dragan</ets>; cf. Skr. <ets>dhraj</ets> to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. <ets>dhar</ets> to hold, bear. <?/<?/<?/. Cf. 2d <er>Drag</er>, <er>Dray</er> a cart, 1st <er>Dredge</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.</def>

<blockquote>He cast him down to ground, and all along <b>Drew</b> him through dirt and mire without remorse. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He hastened to <b>draw</b> the stranger into a private room. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Do not rich men oppress you, and <b>draw</b> you before the judgment seats? <i>James ii. 6.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The arrow is now <b>drawn</b> to the head. <i>Atterbury.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.</def>

<blockquote>The poet Did feign that Orpheus <b>drew</b> trees, stones, and floods. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>All eyes you <b>draw</b>, and with the eyes the heart. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: <sd>(a)</sd> To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>drew</b> out the staves of the ark. <i>2 Chron. v. 9.</i></blockquote>